Donald Trump defends Vladimir Putin: 'I haven’t seen any evidence that he killed anybody'

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Source: Business Insider



ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos on Sunday repeatedly confronted real-estate tycoon Donald Trump over his praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin last week.

Putin and Trump traded compliments last week, with the Russian president calling Trump a "very talented" person. Trump embraced Putin's praise as a "great honor."

Like MSNBC's Joe Scarborough before him, Stephanopoulos on Sunday asked Trump about Putin's status as a strongman, including allegations that the Kremlin has been involved in orchestrating the deaths of political opponents and journalists.

Stephanopoulos particularly pressed Trump on his Friday "Morning Joe" comments, in which he said that "our country does a lot of killing, also.

Read more: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/abcs-george-stephanopoulos-confronts-donald-162607687.html

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Of, course, Trump didn't demand "evidence" two years ago when he was disgustingly pushing his buddy Alex Jones' debunked tinfoil hat conspiracy theories about President Obama:



https://mobile.twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/411247268763676673

Expect Morning Joe and the rest of the Trump-loving media to question Donald on this hypocrisy a week from never.

And when are the rightwing patriotism police going to denounce Trump for accusing our military of doing "a lot of killing." Had a Democrat said anything remotely like that, Hannity and co. would have accused them of "hating America" and replayed the clip endlessly for years.

[onehandle]

1. Total ass. nt

[PatrickforO]

2. You've GOT to be kidding me!!!

No EVIDENCE???

And this guy is the FRONT RUNNER in the Republican race???

Shit.

[saltpoint]

3. Mayor Michael Nutter of Philadelphia offered

a quick-reference assessment of Donald Trump:

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2015/dec/08/donald-trump-muslims-philadelphia-mayor-michael-nutter-video?CMP=share_btn_gp


I think Mayor Nutter has it right.

[trillion]

31. Thank you for that! I enjoyed it.

[saltpoint]

33. Hi, trillion. Yep -- Nutter seems

to have made a pretty concise assessment of The Donald.

[William Seger]

4. "our country does a lot of killing, also."

His BFF Alex Jones will certainly use that quote in his next Sandy Hook rant.

[The Second Stone]

5. And I haven't seen any evidence that Trump is classy

or has taste. And I've seen plenty of evidence that he is a gutter mouth rube.

[sarge43]

6. He was KGB and worked with the Stasi, hairdo. Of course, there's no evidence. n/t

[Jarqui]

7. LOL

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/678501512088297478

Donald J. Trump – Verified account ?@realDonaldTrump 1:05 AM - 20 Dec 2015

Hillary Clinton lied when she said that "ISIS is using video of Donald Trump as a recruiting tool." This was fact checked by @FoxNews: FALSE

[LS_Editor]

8. Wow... their relationship is getting serious...

To think, it all started with a little sexting...

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin Sexting for Over Six Months
http://www.theniladmirari.com/2015/12/gop-republican-presidential-candidate-donald-trump-and-russian-president-vladimir-putin-sexting-for-over-six-months.html

[lanlady]

9. close to 7,000 Ukrainians killed since Feb 2014

thanks to Tsar Vova's war of aggression in Ukraine, woman and children included.

Not to mention MH17 which was shot down by his henchmen on the ground in East Ukraine.

Putin's hands are drenched in blood, but not to worry, Donald Trump has his back!

[GeeNeeUs]

10. I haven't seen any evidence that Trump is

...a decent human being.

[olddad56]

16. I haven't seen any evidence that he is a even a human being.

[Gregorian]

11. Yeah, see like ah, my burden of proof is like "getaouttahere!"

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

12. Agree. Other than, well, that pesky Malasian airplane.

And, oh yeah, the Crimean peninsula.

Ukraine.

Boris Nemtsoff

A few reporters

But other than that, yeah, maybe, mostly agree

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

13. Trumpy Claus !

[lastlib]

14. (said the man with his hands over his eyes..........)

[L. Coyote]

15. Honey, is that the baby crying for attention again? No Dear, that's Trump. I turned on the news.

?1449852767

[kacekwl]

17. Where are all the flag waving patriots

denouncing Trump as a communist ?

[FiveGoodMen]

27. They didn't get their marching orders from Fox (or their local pulpit)

It's not as if these ... people ... have principles of the OWN!

[bdwker]

18. What a jerk.

[LynneSin]

19. Didn't they use to say that about Adolph Hitler and Nazi Germany?

Just saying....

[the_phantom_dennis]

20. Let's Review, Shall We?

According to The Donald, it's a fact that hundreds or even thousands of Muslims
were celebrating in New Jersey on 9/11, despite zero evidence, but it's a myth that Putin's
regime has killed journalists, despite massive evidence.

Eric Blair would be SO proud!

[bulloney]

21. Charles Manson himself didn't kill anyone either.

But he's been sitting in prison for over 40 years and will never walk out as a free man because his followers carried out his orders.

[patsimp]

22. trump is such a moron.

[Codeine]

23. I can think of one or another_liberal that would agree with him. nt

[lark]

24. Birds of a feather

would kill the world together.

[Shimmershine]

25. He is losing ground in Iowa

Even some conservatives think he is nuts.

[randys1]

26. The donald realizes the GOP prefers KGB to USA and he is using that fact.

[alfredo]

28. Mafia bosses always had their soldiers do the dirty work.

[nxylas]

29. That's not exactly what I'd call a spirited defence

"Darling, do you love me?"
"Well, I haven't seen any evidence that you've killed anybody. What? Why are you looking at me like that?"

[Bad Dog]

30. Reminds me of this

[trillion]

32. .

[Douglas Carpenter]

34. I wonder how much this will boost his poll numbers among likely Republican

primary voters?